Jazz and Pop

Jazz and Pop at the ZHdK combines creativity, topicality and individualization with musical excellence and stylistic diversity in an active Swiss scene.


Welcome to the profile Jazz and Pop! The training includes courses for instruments and singing in the Bachelor of Arts in Music (Jazz, Pop), Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy and Master of Arts in Music Performance (Jazz & Worldmusic, Pop – from NN).

Music studies at the ZHdK take place at one of the largest integrated art colleges in Europe. Students are guided by excellent lecturers and benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure. The flexible and permeable study programme and the broad networking with the professional world offer optimal conditions for the start of a professional career.


Degree programmes


Mehrspur


Faculty

Learn from the best: First-class lecturers design the lessons and accompany you in your development.


Improvisation

Improvisation is the defining element in all jazz movements, and the improvisational attitude is the actual core competence of jazz musicians. Improvisation also plays an important role in the context of various pop styles: spontaneous or planned solo passages during a performance, composing and producing new songs, jam sessions.


Around studies


Highlights


Extraordinary musicians: Lecturer Nik Bärtsch and Resident Lecturer 2023 Eivind Aarset


Dynamic duo: a brief portrait of the new lecturers Arthur Hnatek and Mareike Wiening


Every May and September, the jazz and pop students crown their Bachelor's degree with a final concert. The young musicians present their music on the Mehrspur stage with their own band. The concerts can be experienced on site and via livestream.


    Events

    Fancy the stage? With the «Mehrspur», Jazz and Pop in the Toni-Areal has its own music club including a bar. This provides a stage for all practice-related study modules as well as a parallel public cultural program.
    Students, lecturers and alumni together form the ensembles, which repeatedly perform in various formations and projects. The Klub Mehrspur provides insight into the highlights of the music scene: whether unique experimental music lab or internationally successful bands, whether jazz, electro, indie pop, singer songwriter, future pop or soul: the vocabulary is shaped by the ZHdK's Jazz & Pop profile.
    Click here for the program. Current pictures and video impressions of the concerts are regularly shown on Instagram.


    Infrastructure

    Students at the ZHdK Musik benefit from an excellent infrastructure, live electronics and multimedia, audio productions with in-house sound engineers, historical instrument collections, an extensive equipment pool for loan and an excellent library.


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